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I have created Bartib a time tracker for the command line: https://github.com/nikolassv/bartib . I needed something to track my activities at work. All other solutions that I tried…

I pretended to often that I had figured everything out and didn't need any help. Although this worked out ok, I would have surely learnt more if I had more often admitted that I wa…

This is his personal website with some of his caricatures: http://www.arnofunke.de/

They had both, but some new hire confused them.

A good read. In case anyone is wondering where they have hidden their rss feed, it's: https://plus.maths.org/content/rss.xml

This article sounds convincing but I don't find it really hard to refute these weak man arguments: “I hate people who frivolously diagnose themselves with autism without knowing an…

There is a subpage with examples from various shows: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Flanderization/LiveAc... It discusses each main character from friends (and Gunther of c…

The Jacobin - jacobinmag.com/ - for the socialist perspective and analysis.

That is not human nature. That is avarice. Your intuition that "everybody does it" does not make it right.

The sum they pay for the citizenship. Just look at some of the Caribbean islands. Selling citizenship can be quite lucrative.

No, it won't. It will incentivize governments to help rich people from all over the world avoid taxes.

> You sort of inherently act differently if you were bought up rich. Its hard to describe exactly but you tend to be more (blindly) self-confident and just behave a bit differently…

I really agree to all the points in the article. But I would add another one: Today it is so much easier to find someone online to speak to in your target language. There are many …

Judging generative art on how complicated the code is that it is generated by misses the point. For the "art" aspect the code is just a tool. It can get quite complicated but it do…

Just watching someone doing the real thing is one of the most prominent strategies to avoid doing the real thing. It is not enough to watch someone very skilled do the real thing. …

I am really looking forward to read the blog post "design software like it is 20s" where someone found my commits from this year and (hopefully) comes to the same conclusion.

In my experience this is not only true for memorizing theoretical knowledge but for physical skills too. For example, if you learn the piano simply playing pieces you know won't ma…

There are no adults in the room ( https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/08/12/there-are-no-a... ) During my career I was always looking for some senior developer to guide me in m…

(I am so glad the title is not "Userdir URLs considered harmful".)